Another day, another tongue lashing from Anne Bayefsky. Bayefsky, the director of the Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust at Touro College, has become a Jewish gadfly here in Geneva, as speechifying diplomats wrapped the first week of a two-week “preparatory” session for the 2009 World Conference Against Racism. A common theme here is…

Noel Hidalgo/Creative Commons JTA correspondent Michael J. Jordan visits with the diplomats in Geneva preparing for the 2009 World Conference Against Racism as they seek to widen the definition of anti-Semitism to include Islamophobia – Arabs are Semites, after all – and talk of the importance of focusing on “state racism.” Guess which state? Parsing…

Marking and memorializing the Nazi killing fields of Eastern European Jews makes for far more than a macabre historical footnote. The fieldwork and research paints a clearer picture of how many Jews died during the Holocaust.

In the killing fields of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the so-called “Holocaust of bullets,” a French Catholic priest leads the only group conducting regular, methodical fieldwork tracing the last steps of these missing Jews in Ukraine.

Marking and memorializing the Nazi killing fields of Eastern European Jews makes for far more than a macabre historical footnote. The fieldwork and research paints a clearer picture of how many Jews died during the Holocaust.

The first and only team in 70 years is conducting field research on Jewish folklore in the historic region of Podolia, the only place in the Pale of Settlement where Jewish life survived the Holocaust intact.